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> We have been running our IOC at 200Hz 
> and the sequence program delays were all 
> shortened. (I'm running SNL V1.9.2).
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> It appears that the SNL built-in function delay() is
> rather crude and assumes that the CPU clock rate 
> is 60Hz - it calculates the number of ticks to wait by simply 
> multiplying seconds by 60, instead of sysClkRateGet().
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> Philip Taylor
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> 
Hi Philip,
There is a new version of the sequencer that has all of this fixed.
I believe William Lupton has checked it in for the next official
release, but you can probably get a copy directly from him.
He is in Hawaii, so he will probably answer this himself in a few hours.
Rozelle

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